http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Curtis-and-Monica--Gallivanting-Abroad/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Curtis and Monica Gallivanting Abroad en-us Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:46:54 +0000 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:46:54 +0000 Hello EveryoneFirst off Happy New Year I know we are late but we have been moving around quite a bit. We hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and that the New Year is starting off great. After we left Granada we took a very wavy ferry ride to Ometepe Island. An island formed by two volcanoes. We stayed there for 3 days. It was a pretty area with the volcanoes in the background. We did some http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Manuel-Antonio/blog-362523.html FELIZ NAVIDADWe want to wish our family and friends a very Merry Christmas We hope that all of you had a great few days and wish that all of you were able to get some days off of work so that the days were spent with family. You were all greatly missed on these days when family and friends are charished most. We have enjoyed our time here at Christmas but it is still not the same. with s http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Granada/blog-357225.html Hola EveryoneWe headed north to the rain forest area in Costa Rica. Where it is very cold and rainy but beautiful. We stayed four days in La Fortuna. A little town beside the Arenal volcano. It is a neat little town where there are lots of adrenaline activities one can participate in. Our adventures began with a volcano hike in the pursuit to see lava. We had a bit of walk through the forest to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Puntarenas/Monteverde/blog-353931.html If I can drive home one point in this blog it would be that getting stuck in the middle of political riots is NOT FUN. In the very least it has been an interesting week or so. First off though Cambodia was GREAT We loved the country. It had such an amazing feel to it. After Phnom Penh we headed off to Siem Reap. This was a cool smaller town that mostly consisted of markets lots of restuarants a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-351458.html Three days ago Curtis and I arrived in Cambodia The last week in Vietnam was very exciting and we saw some pretty cool sites. After we got some tailor made clothes for us in HoiAn we ventured off to Na Trang. We climbed aboard another sleeper bus for a semisleepless night to the next major city. Although thankfully the sleeper buses have 3 rows of bunk beds so you actually get to lay down. Na http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-348808.html Hello and sorry for the long gap between our last blogs. It is hard to find the time and the place to do a blog when the computers are sooooo slow and crash frequently. We cannot believe it has been two weeks since the last blog I suppose we just had so much fun in Laos that we could not find time to write although Mom's know we were safe as we both called from Laos. Our last one left off as we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-345016.html Today we are leaving to head to the Laos border so we thought we should write about our last week and a half in Thailand. After Koh Phangan we headed to the other island Koh Samui. We rented a scooter for one day and drove around the island checking out the two famous waterfalls. This was a ton of fun but kinda scary because you have to get used to driving on the other side of the road. One night http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Northern-Thailand/blog-340155.html This past week has had many many adventures both good and painful. We safely recieved are passports back Oct 9 and that evening we took the overnight bus to Chumpon where we arrived there at 6 am and then took a boat to Koh Tao. Our first island It was soooooo cool arriving at the coast. It is absolutely beautiful here Koh Tao is the diving island. So we shopped around to different resorts http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/blog-334601.html Hello from the land of heat and humidityWell after a realativily short plane ride we arrived in Bangkok The Sri Lanken Airline was actually very good really yummy food. We heard about the taxi scams in Bangkok and low and behold as soon as we came off the plane there was many people trying to corall us into some sort of taxi ride. But we were smart and lined up for the public transport line. T http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-331869.html The last two days here in China has been very exciting with one day venturing out to the Summer Palace and yesturday was our Great Wall day trip. To get to the Summer Palace we decided to take the city bus. Which the girls working at the hostel said it was easy. Ya it's easy when you can read which stop you are suppose to get off. Getting there was slightly confusing but being only lost once in B http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Great-Wall-of-China/blog-330634.html Our first three days in China have been quite exciting with many sites seen including Tian'amen square Mao Mausoleum Forbiddnen City Beihai Park Confusious Temple Lama Temple Daton Park the Olympic Park the Temple of Heaven and then the Silk and Pearl Market. Our days have been jam packed and our feet our already feeling the many amount of kilometers we have been walking. But each day has http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-329742.html Hello EveryoneAfter being up for 24 hours Curtis and I finally made it to Beijing China We are very excited to be here. We already had an interesting adventure to get here. Our first flight was great to Vancouver. However on our second flight to Beijing some passengar passed out and needed medical attention so we made an emergency landing in Anchorage Alaska adding another 5 hours to our jo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-328529.html On Saturday September 27th Curtis and I are leaving the country for 4 months. We are both very excited as this trip has been long awaited. We have talked about doing a trip like this for years and it is finally just around the corner. How exciting I have only one day left of work and Curtis is already on holiday time We have some last few things to do before we leave like pack up our cat and al http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Edmonton/blog-326502.html